Mumps spreading among students; 2870 people diagnosed with mumps in December alone

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The spread of mumps among school students is worrying parents and teachers. 2870 people have been diagnosed with mumps in December alone. 328 people were diagnosed with the disease on the 10th and the total number of people diagnosed this year is 69113. More than 10000 people have been diagnosed with the disease this year in Malappuram and Kannur. As it is an airborne disease, doctors are also getting infected by people who come for OP. Two doctors of Thiruvananthapuram General Hospital fell ill yesterday. Experts say that the variant of the virus increases the severity of the spread and the reason the disease, which occurs only in children up to fifteen years of age, is spreading to adults is climate change.

Health experts say that when symptoms such as high fever, cough, sore throat, abdominal pain, back pain, loss of appetite and muscle-body pain are shown, do not mistake it for a common fever and delay treatment. If it spreads to the brain, the disease will become complicated.

No vaccine

The mumps-measles-rubella vaccine (MMR), which was given to children before the age of one-and-a-half years to prevent mumps, has not been given for the last eight years. The spread of disease is more likely when students are in close contact at school.

• Mumps - Mumps is an inflammation of the salivary gland
• The virus spreads in the air when infected people sneeze or cough
• Do not interact with others for at least five days after the onset of symptoms